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Re:Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:31PM (#34460224)
In January itself. One of the devs said
Re:Fuchsia Workstation on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:20AM (#30828383)
Google has a reputation of extinguishing its own projects. So who knows how long their fascination w/ Fuchsia will last.
FastMail had some of the cleverest ideas for plus addressing. [email protected] could be given away as [email protected]
If only my corp allowed me to upgrade the macOS on my laptop, I would be using the latest Safari too instead of messing with Chrome / Brave.
Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers on Friday June 14, 2019 @12:21AM (#20180556)
Micropayments.
Why did you give up on Brave? I find Brave a good option on Android with all the privacy options built in. What am I missing?
Re:Telegram Login for Websites on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:47AM (#16325773)
It is possible to embed posts from public channels in web pages. In fact, if your group is public, you can even embed conversations in your web page. Try the announcement link here https://t.me/telegram/83
Re:Testing Ads in Facebook Messenger on Thursday January 26, 2017 @05:58AM (#13490368)
Last week, someone on a Android podcast referred to it as "Alto"! No one remembers / knows what it is.
Re:Wire (wire.com) client is now fully open sourced on Friday July 22, 2016 @05:50AM (#12142630)
Wire (wire.com) is now fully open sourced. You can build your own client from https://github.com/wireapp and use it to talk to other user using the official clients.
I figured that when publishers do that (autoplay) to you, you can respond back by blocking scripts for them.
Re:Signal Desktop beta now publicly available on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:44AM (#11634695)
I've noticed that a new device added to the account will not see the history. It only sees those messages that are received or sent after it has been added to the account.
Re:Signal Desktop beta now publicly available on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:23AM (#11634641)
The crypto modules are indeed open source. https://github.com/wireapp

I don't know whether they have been formally audited.

Re:Signal Desktop beta now publicly available on Thursday May 05, 2016 @01:30AM (#11634184)
You will find https:///www.wire.com/ interesting. e2e encrypted, clients for Windows, Mac, Android & iOS. And chats are synched between all your clients. Also .. no phone number required to sign up; use your email.
Re:Telegram to award grants to bot developers on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @01:49AM (#11525115)
Why aren't you using Wire (https://www.wire.com)? It is cross platform, end to end secure w/ open source audited crypto, focuses on app usability, and doesn't need a phone number to sign up.
Re:Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools on Monday November 23, 2015 @04:43AM (#10613654)
Some one needs to pay attention to Bittorrent Bleep https://www.bleep.pm/ It is closed source but it riding on a big P2P betwork.. the Mainline DHT
Re:TextSecure: Forward secrecy for asynchronous messages on Friday August 23, 2013 @03:28AM (#6262202)
Users can always revoke their public keys. The same public key does not have to be used continually. Allow users to revoke their keys as often as they like. Heck, force the keys to expire in 1 day if you like! We already expect the sender to be online. The sender can check for key revocation before they send the message. Or let the server send back a error response if the sender used an expired or revoked key to encrypt the message.
Re:Elon Musk - The Future of Energy and Transport [video] on Thursday November 22, 2012 @01:07PM (#4819527)
That would be best. Share the magnet link and we will all help.

Ok. I used Burnbit to create a torrent

http://burnbit.com/torrent/227565/201211_musk_mp4

Re:The $35 Tablet (Akaash) Review on Friday October 07, 2011 @10:42AM (#3084176)
Rs 98 / month is for 2 GB of EDGE data per month. That is the normal charge in India for every mobile customer. This is not a special tariff for this tablet.
Re:Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’ on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @01:31PM (#2997099)
If you send a friend request to some one, and they don't respond (it happens) - you still get to see their public posts in your news stream.
Wouldn't Facebook massively improve usability by just including the Lists in the drop down list in the web interface also? It is actually not too hard if they approach this incrementally.
Buzz is/was the same. If they hadn't forced Buzz down every one's throat, it might have been successful.

Buzz + suggest who to follow!

Re:Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+ on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @10:18PM (#2708157)
The problem with FB groups is that both you and the friends that you want to share the link/photo/message with have to agree to be part of that group. I usually put my friends in multiple groups/circles, i.e. they could be a work colleague but also a eating out enthusiast. This multiple categorization can easily get messy and definitely doesn't scale to hundreds of friends.

Hopefully, with Google+ Circles my private categorization of my friends is not shared with them. They should only see what I share.

The teams maybe autonomous in Google but I'm sure that they are aware that they are duplicating functionality and thus really harming the company. What the heck the are product managers and their managers doing at Google? Building their own little empires?
Re:Whoa... Groupon Generated $760M in Revenue in 2010 on Saturday February 26, 2011 @05:02AM (#2265236)
Agreed. It shouldn't be counted as revenue. It is such misleading reporting that leads to over valuation and bubbles.
Re:How India's banks killed the future of commerce on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @04:07AM (#2220641)
Man-in-the-middle attack are made less likely because the 3DSecure page where the user is asked to enter a password also contains challenge question that was originally added by the user at the time of setting up 3DSecure for his/her account. The user should be able to recognize that this is not the bank's website when the challenge question is not his/her own.

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